Thursday June 10th 2010 @ Glee Club Birmingham

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Hello there,

The Miserable Rich have a wonderful new album ‘Of Flight and Fury’ and they have kindly invited the band and I to perform at the launch show in Birmingham.

NME described their music as “ …so heartbreakingly beautiful, it reduces anyone who hears it to a weeping mess.” and the studio room at The Glee Club is the perfect, intimate place to watch them live.

I will be playing with a four piece band and doing some new material in addition to songs from the Balloon, the Bubble & the Box (have you claimed your free downloads yet?! – if not get clicking!)

If you live up North, I am also playing a solo support show to TMR at Band On The Wall, Manchester on June 8th.

And finally, Elena Thomas is currently hard at work sewing some very limited CD bags which will be available exclusively at these shows – hope to see you x

Click to hear Where Is The Love? on BBC Radio 2

I have to confess to being a little starstruck upon meeting Jeremy in a car park yesterday. I reguarly tune in and enjoy his mix of pop & pundits and his quick thinking intelligent delivery makes for a real good chewy listen (what I mean is the guests on the phone in often provoke a wide range of reactions and I find myself nodding in a greement or screaming and banging on the steering wheel in despair)  

So I was really pleased Jeremy played Where Is The Love? and would like to thank him for taking the bold step of playing an unsigned artist on daytime national radio. Co – written with Eric Barlow, the song features the wonderful sound of BJ Cole on pedal steel and Carina Round on vocals. Read more about the recording process here

Click Here to watch me on BBC TV

This project was a real pleasure from beginning to end. The research part of it was fun as I had a valid reason to sit and watch hours of Ray Goslings wonderful films, and the filming day was great as Ray is a true gent and shared a lot of wisdom.

Next week I will be featured on a great website called Tunatheday

Click here for information on forthcoming gigs

Bye for now

Dan

Hello

I went to the bank this morning and was surprised to find it has been turned into a betting shop!

A similar business model though I guess…

Very happy to announce I have two gigs confirmed supporting The Miserable Rich, a solo show at Band On The Wall in Manchester and with the band at Glee Club Birmingham. Get details on my live page

On Monday I supported Ian Siegal at Robin 2 Wolves, and for his encore he covered a Guy Clark song called The Cape…it’s a wonderful lyric and I am grateful to Ian for introducing me to it and for his powerful big bad blues set that night. You can hear it on this video though I havent watched the footage so have no idea what that is all about.

Tuesday was spent in the company of a whole host of wonderful folk, filming for the ‘Somebody Loves You’ video. Not sure when it will be complete, but will certainly let you know on this blog.

Wednesday and Thursday have been real world working days, (albeit with a bit of a hazy head and vague dreamy thoughts about writing a song for dear friend who passed recently) and rudely interrupted by my car insurance company requesting vast some sums, immediately

Looking forward to a few days off now, hope you can get a break too:)

Cheers,

Dan x